Caring for a child with a severe disability means a lifetime of being an outsider. Heather Kirn Lanier, a poet, teacher and mother, beautifully illustrates this experience in her post “Notes from the Land of Beauty and Difficulty” from her blog, Star in Her Eye.

Elizabeth Aquino, her husband, and two of her daughters care for Sophie, who was born happy and healthy nearly twenty years ago. Within months of birth, Sophie started having seizures. Elizabeth writes...

Caregifted recipient and award-winning poet Barbara Crooker had one of her poems read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac on 12 August, 2014. The poem chosen by Keillor takes on an entirely new dimension after you learn a little about the poet and her life as a long term caregiver.